For the past several years, the UT Center for Ethics has recognized an
individual whose personal, business and professional life reflects those
classical ethical standards that contribute to all that is good in our society —
responsibility, respect, trustworthiness, caring, justice and citizenship.

Kaplan is executive director of the National Conference for Community and
Justice — Tampa Bay Region. He has led the human relations organization in
addressing bias, bigotry and racism in the community. He has been recognized
nationally as a "Hero of Education" by the U.S. Department of Education, and has
served as an adviser on the President's Commission on Race Relations, "One
America."